So what’s the big deal about breakfast? As owner of the title “Most Important Meal of the Day”, breakfast is a big deal, and with relative ease, it can also be a delicious deal. This site is going to feature lots of inspiration and ideas to make it just that. Why is breakfast such a big deal to me? Aside from all the great benefits we all know about, there is much more to my personal love of breakfast.

Many of my favorite childhood memories can be traced back to breakfast time. Growing up, I spent a lot of time with my grandparents. Every morning I was with them we always ate together. If I close my eyes I can still smell the country style bacon and my grandmother’s coffee. I loved these mornings so much it didn’t matter that I had to stop watching cartoons to come and eat with them. While we were all at the table, my grandparents had very involved conversations about what was going on in the world. As a child I didn’t understand everything they were talking about, but I was curious and I wanted hear everything. This was my first memory of wanting to know things and the beginning of my desire to learn. I remember it was while sitting at the breakfast table, that my determination to gain one of my favorite skills was born.

After we cleaned our plates, we never got up right away. My grandparents continued to sit at the table and talk while sipping their coffee. I was used to watching television with them and hearing conversations about whatever we were watching. I knew where these topics came from. While chewing  his last bite of food, my grandfather would take the red rubber band from around a bundle of paper. He would unroll the bundle and hand some of it to my grandmother and keep some for himself. They each opened their sections out into great big sheets of paper and began silently staring at them with their eyes darting back and forth. Within a few minutes they suddenly had new things to talk about. It was just like when conversations started during our TV time, except I didn’t know where these subjects were coming from. My grandmother had started teaching me the alphabet so I knew there were letters on the papers, but I didn’t know how they were getting things to talk about by looking at all those rows of letters. I decided right there at the breakfast table that I had to know. I wanted to learn how they were doing that more than anything. When my grandmother told me I would learn how once I started school, I couldn’t wait.

I share that memory because breakfast can be about more than nutrition. It is one of the easiest meals people can share. It can be as simple as cold cereal and milk to elaborate breakfast casseroles requiring a day or two of preparation. This site is about ideas and information for the meal itself, but it’s also about getting quality time out of the enjoyment of it. This applies whether you are eating alone or with a room full of family and friends. Breakfast time sets the tone for the day. It’s the meal you have before any new stresses crop up. I plan to provide information and inspiration to help you create great breakfast memories of your own.

I love my breakfast memories. Whether it was simple breakfasts with my grandparents, or my wide eyed anticipation of my mother’s mountainous platters of eggs, hash browns, sausage and biscuits, I have always associated breakfast with joy. I’m looking forward to spreading some of that joy from this web site.